Business
Construction of a new high-rise addition to the Hilton hotel in Universal City was approved by the Los Angeles Planning Commission, clearing a major hurdle for the long-planned expansion.
Sept. 18, 2024
Music
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs will stay locked up in an infamous Brooklyn, N.Y., federal jail after his attorney tried and failed to have him put on house arrest.
California
The National Park Service announced that the historic Wawona Hotel in Yosemite would close on Dec. 2 to allow the agency to conduct a comprehensive assessment.
Sept. 12, 2024
Hotel sales volume and the number of individual sales are both down in California and Los Angeles, a recent report from Atlas Hospitality Group found.
A new city reports bolsters a proposal by some L.A. City Council members to raise the minimum wages of hotel and airport workers before the 2028 Olympics.
Sept. 10, 2024
Workers represented by Unite Here Local 11 launched a boycott of the Cameo Hotel and Marriott Beverly Hills hotels in August.
Sept. 5, 2024
Updates
The 179-room Lüm Hotel in Inglewood was sold by Los Angeles-based Shomof Group for $57.2 million.
Aug. 29, 2024
The two border agents, Diego Bonillo and Jesse Garcia, were charged with an 11-count indictment, accusing the pair with importation of methamphetamines, fentanyl and cocaine. They face more than a decade in prison.
Sept. 9, 2024
World & Nation
Hotel housekeepers have waged a fierce battle to restore automatic daily room cleaning that was scaled back at many properties during the pandemic.
Sept. 1, 2024
A series of four significant breaks in the Transcanyon Waterline will shut down multiple hotels on the South Rim starting Thursday afternoon, the park service said.